Saw the live demo for this today at GopherCon; really impressive! The Go code was surprisingly simple and intuitive, yet low-level enough to have tight control.
I was there too. There were like 6 demos during the presentation--all of them were awesome! The first rule of presentations is to minimize demonstrations because things can go wrong, but all of there demos were amazing and went off without a hitch. I too thought Go was only a server-side language, but they showed it runs great on embedded devices.
This... exactly. Presentation was great. Presenters were really good. Gobot looks solid.